In response to his complaint, IBM offered him a ‘compromise agreement’ in which he was placed on the company’s health plan so that he would not be fired.
Ian Clifford went on sick leave in September 2008.
A senior IT worker at IBM, who has been ‘sick’ for the past 15 years, has sued the tech giant for discrimination. According to the Telegraph, employee Ian Clifford complained about not getting a pay rise. Clifford is a systems architect at IBM but has been on sick leave since September 2008. His LinkedIn profile states that he has been ‘medically retired’ since April 2013. But Ian Clifford claimed he was a victim of ‘disability discrimination’, as did IBM. His salary has not increased in the last 15 years.
Ian Clifford went on sick leave in September 2008. He first raised a complaint about his salary in 2013. In response to his complaint, IBM offered him a ‘compromise agreement’ in which he was placed on the company’s health plan so that he would not be. Dismissal. This plan ensures that Clifford remains an employee and relieves him of the obligation to work.
Under the plan, an employee is ‘entitled’ to 75 percent of the agreed wages until reinstatement, retirement, or death, whichever comes first. In Clifford’s case, the agreed salary was £72,037. This means that since 2013, he was paid more than £54,000 (Rs 55,30,556) per year after a 25 per cent deduction.
Despite being an inactive employee, Clifford was guaranteed this salary until he reached retirement at age 65. However, he did not find this arrangement generous enough and argued that his salary was insufficient to cope with rising inflation. As a result, he took IBM to an employment tribunal in Reading, UK in February 2022.
The employment tribunal, however, dismissed his claims and a judge observed that Ian Clifford had been given favorable treatment and substantial benefits.
“This contention is not sustainable as only the disabled can benefit from the scheme. It is not disability discrimination that the scheme is not more generous,” the judge observed.
Meanwhile, IBM was in the news recently when the company announced that it would stop hiring for back-office functions like human resources because about 7,800 jobs could be replaced by artificial intelligence (AI) over the next five years.
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